Car journal-box.



PATENTED APR. 25, 1905. H. 0. WILLIAMSON & H. PRIES.

GAR JOURNAL BOX APPLICATION FILED NOV. 21. 1904.

IUNTTED STATES Patented April 25, 1905.

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HENRY C. IVILLIAHSON AND HERMAN FRIES, OF MICHIGAN CITY, INDIANA.

CAR JOURNAL-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,007, dated April25, 1905.

Application filed November 21, 1904. Serial No. 233,689.

To (/J/ 1117/0/11, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HENRY C. mmutsox and HERMAN Inins, citizens of theUnited States, and residents of Michigan City, county of Laporte, andState of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in(ar Journal-Boxes, of which the following is a specification and whichare illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to the internal construction of carjournal-boxes, its object being to provide means for retaining the 'asteor packing material ordinarily placed in such boxes for the purpose ofleading the lubricant by capillary action to the face of the journal;and it consists in the structure hereinafter described and illustratedin the accompanying drawings, in which-- Eigure l is a detaillongitudinal vertical section of a journal-box, a portion of thecarjournal being shown in elevation. Fig. 2 is a detail central plansection of the journalbox, the journal being removed; and Fig. 3 is atransverse vertical section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

It is found in practice that the packing used in car journal-boxes isliable to be carried up between the journal and the bearing-block orbrass and also to be carried downwardly and impacted at the bottom ofthe box. To avoid these objections, it has heretofore been proposed toform flanges on the interior of the box which are intended to serve asstops to retain the filling material in place; but in practice there isa tendency of the material to wedge between the edges of these flangesand the journal.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide means for holding thematerial back, so that it does not have a tendency to enter theinterspace between the holding means and the journal.

In the drawings there is shown the end of a rar-journal at 10 and ajournal-box of the usual contour, except as hereinafterdescribed, at ll.The brass or bearing-block is illustrated at 12, and the wedge or keyinterposed between the brass and the top of the box is represented at13. The box is represented as having its cover removed.

Projecting inwardly from each side wall of the box 11 and on a levelwith or a little below the axis of the journal is a row ofdownwardly-curved hooks 14. Each row of these hooks is arranged in aplurality of sections, as shown, the sections being divided by anintel-space l5 and lb, allowing for the free downward flow of anylubricant which may have been carried upwardly above the row of hooks bythe journal.

A longitudinal rib l7 rises from the median line of the bottom of thejournal-box and is provided at its upper edge with two rows oflaterallyprojecting and oppositely-directed hooks IS 19. The rib 17 isapertured at its base, as indicated at 20 21, to allow the lubricant topass through it.

The filling material is placed between the rib l7 and the two rows ofhooks l-t and is, as usual, to be saturated with oil. As the journalrotates in either direction it tends to carry the filling material withit; but the latter is stopped by one of the rows of hooks M and by oneof the rows of hooks 18 or 19,depending upon the direction of rotationof the journal. These hooks enter the mass or inelose it by reason oftheir curved form and hold it against the tendency to enter betweentheir points and the surface of the journal.

\Ve claim as our invention- 1. A car journal-box havinglongitiulinallyarranged downwardly-curved hooks projecting from theinner faces of its side walls.

2. A car journal-box having longitiulinallyarranged downwardly-curvedhooks projecting from the inner faces of its side walls; a longitudinalrib rising from its bottom; and a series of laterally-projecting hooksat the top of the rib.

3. A car journal-box having longitudinallyarranged downwardly-curvedhooks projecting from the inner faces of its side walls, and two seriesof longitinlinally-disposed, laterally-directed hooks rising from thebottom of the box.

HENRY C. \VILLIAMSON. HERMAN FRIES.

IVitnesses:

SAMUEL J. TAYLOR, C IIARL as P0 in n a.

